Senior Software Developer Job Trends in West Wales

Senior Software Developer
Wales > West Wales

The median Senior Software Developer salary in West Wales is £55,200 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 November 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 22 -
Rank change year-on-year +11 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Developer 1 3 0
As % of all permanent jobs in West Wales 2.04% 2.10% -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.27% 2.11% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52,400 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,200 £55,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +0.36% - -
75th Percentile £58,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Wales

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in West Wales. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in West Wales with a recognized job title 44 142 134
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.80% 99.30% 93.71%
Number of salaries quoted 25 98 117
10th Percentile £29,300 £30,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £37,733 £31,438 £36,103
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,848 £40,000 £44,710
Median % change year-on-year +7.12% -10.53% -5.87%
75th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £55,500
90th Percentile £70,807 £65,750 £75,000
Wales median annual salary £48,500 £45,000 £46,210
% change year-on-year +7.78% -2.62% -7.58%

Senior Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in West Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Software Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West Wales.

Senior Software Developer job vacancy trend in West Wales

Senior Software Developer
Salary Trend in West Wales

Salary distribution trend for Senior Software Developer job vacancies in West Wales.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Software Developer job vacancies in West Wales

Senior Software Developer
Job Locations in West Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Software Developer within the West Wales region over the 6 months to 6 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Swansea +8 1 £55,200 +0.36% 3
Senior Software Developer
Wales

Senior Software Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Wales

For the 6 months to 6 November 2025, Senior Software Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the West Wales region featuring Senior Software Developer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Delphi
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Django
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Flask
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving

Senior Software Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Django
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Flask
1 1 (100.00%) pytest
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) SEO
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Delphi
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle